September 9, 2009
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Microsoft is doing its best to bury desktop Linux with lies, but at least one major vendor, Dell, isn’t just continuing to deliver laptops and netbooks with Ubuntu Linux, it’s actually upgrading the version of Ubuntu it’s shipping and, later … Continue reading
August 30, 2009
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Over the weekend, I decided to see which of the major operating systems would be the easiest to update. The answer may surprise you. First, I took several of my Windows systems and tried to upgrade them to Windows 7 … Continue reading
August 27, 2009
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A friend of mine, Joe Eckert, recently penned a short, funny piece entitled, “Does Tech Need a Boost? How About “Cash for Vista?”. After I got done smiling at it, I thought, why not offer desktop Linux to people with … Continue reading
August 25, 2009
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The conventional wisdom is that Macs are expensive. Microsoft ads make a big deal about how much more computer you can get for the money. Nonsense. Actually, you can get a perfectly good Mac for cheap: the Mac mini, which … Continue reading
August 21, 2009
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Usually, the major Linux desktop distributors offer both the major Linux desktop interfaces-KDE and GNOME. Some, like Canonical divide it into two separate distributions, Ubuntu for GNOME and Kubuntu for KDE, but they seldom offer a default choice. OpenSUSE. however, … Continue reading
August 14, 2009
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With so many desktop Linux distributions, unless you’re an expert it’s hard to know what’s what. Since I’ve been using desktop Linux almost since day one, and I’ve used every major distribution out there and many of the minor ones. … Continue reading